skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're kind of barreling toward this reality in pockets of the western world. Where I live in the US (wealthy blue state, not rural Alabama, don't get your hopes up) you pretty much can't do fair business at a fair price without a personal reference or prior business relationship. And in some of the smaller wealthier towns you can see this kind of behavior start to creep into local government. Of course this is a far cry from not being able to rely on the police but it's definitely movement in that direction.
You may also be thinking of Snow Crash. Creepy stuff!
Isn’t regulation just a response to what the market accepts but communities do not?
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Do Andriods Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

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> Good, then prosecute him for the actual crimes he committed.

This is a tort that he actually committed, not a crime, but otherwise that’s what is happening. Not every violation of law is a “crime”.
Finding the Time for Ancient Novels
I think this is a great and fantastic idea; it's something I imagine a lot of Crossfit folks would be very willing to buy, especially in a pandemic. And it's a target market with money and motivation! I definitely prefer this over biking.
Last week the media in the uk ran headlines saying that covid was spreading like wildfire, despite the evidence from the number of cases showing the opposite (halving every 2 weeks)

The day later they ran headlines sayign that covid wasn't spreading like wildfire.

The source of the first scaremongering inaccurate dangerous headline was a study which said:

During the period 6 January to 15 January, SARS-CoV-2 virus was circulating with a higher prevalence than between 25 November to 3 December with 158 in 10,000 infected. There was no strong evidence for either growth or decay in prevalence averaged across the period 6 January to 15 January.

Which led to headlines like

"Covid-19 cases have increased more quickly since lockdown started in England, study finds"

(Lockdown started on Jan 5th - when about 60,000 cases were being identified each day. The headline was Jan 21st, when about 30,000 cases were identified)

https://inews.co.uk/news/covid-19-cases-england-increase-sin...

The 7 day cases identified from Jan 6th to 15th dropped from 55,885/day to 40,242/day

That either means the number of unidentified cases balooned, or the REACT study was too small to identify changes over the course of a week (it's not designed to). In the former case we'd expect fewer tests were being done, but tests throughout January have remained averaging about 550,000 a day.

The media will print whatever they can, so it's important to give headlines which make it clear the data is inconclusive. "appears" is a weasel-word that is well used in this case, and far better than misreporting a scientific paper
Hi - congrats on your amazing looking product and experience!

I just purchased an Ergatta 2 weeks ago, waiting for delivery. In what circumstances would I want your product instead of the Ergatta?

Background: I'm an avid peloton user for 3 years now, (also just picked up the tempo.fit for guided lifting) and am looking to mix in intense rowing sessions. The Ergatta looks compelling for gamified sessions with competition.

Change my mind?
Sustainable trust is earned, not blindly given.

It is the responsibility of each participant to criticize the status quo and those who have taken up responsibility and power, or else they keep building on brittle, hierarchical foundations until everything crashes down.

Yes, there are populists who spread political lies, insecure managers who default to micro-management, bureaucratic systems that slow everything down and disillusioned workers. Their common trait is mistrust: They often have been hurt by those that they should be trusting, they are not being heard and sometimes they see through the bullshit. The best case is that there is simply a lack of real communication, education and direct involvement, because that problem is solvable.

It is very simple: for trust to grow and stabilize, both parties need to care and invest in each other. There is no shortcut, no trick and no amount of marketing, propaganda or talk will get either side out of this. That means both sides need to admit their mistakes, be vulnerable, caring, hopeful and most importantly honest and transparent.
the usecase i have been looking at is hosting a peertube instance and video generates a lot of traffic and storage. it is becoming clear to me either have own min.io physical servers at a one off capex cost and then pay for bandwidth...

this one would need to do arrangements with ISPs because they dont want a brand new DC they cant handle.
The word used in the grandparent comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25899179) was “killed,” not “murdered”
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But you can't use Youtube premium logged out.
Fairly certain the "artificial intelligence" they're describing are the rotten brains of anyone who works for that company.
Fantastic breakdown. Thanks.
A shipping box to be reused up to 1k times
Berlin-based startup LivingPackets is looking to replace disposable cardboard boxes with a smart, reusable alternative.
It would be nice if web services offered an option to disable this misfeature per account, or better yet offer to upload the user's PGP key and encrypt all outgoing email with it, incl. the password reset email.
FYI, the Vancouver company here operates the flights and owns the aircraft. But the electric propulsion bits comes from a company in Washington state in the US (and before that they were located in Australia). The article mentions "Seattle area", which is true but a bit imprecise/misleading. MagniX is located in Redmond, and they're moving their headquarters and manufacturing further North, to Everett, where Boeing's big factories are located (https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/elect...). MagniX is also selling their electric propulsion products to other airlines (see https://www.geekwire.com/2020/magnix-universal-hydrogen-team...).
> I don't get why conservative politicians aren't behind this?

Because it doesn't benefit them. They're politicians. "Conservative" is just the label they've figured out will garner them the most votes. And "conservative" voters have been brainwashed over generations to believe this isn't a real crisis.
A more recent justification was to remove the chance for rich children to "look different" to poor children -- everyone is equal by wearing the same.

Of course, it doesn't work that way -- the poor children have second-hand clothes or the cheapest clothes from Asda, and the rich children will spend money on whatever they can -- fancy shoes etc.
What's this obsession of anti-anti-vax with measles? When I was on my national Reddit sub, it would come up 40 times a year.

When I was a kid, everyone was catching it. That was just one of those diseases you catch once and then you are done with it.

It is so low-risk that doctors didn't even declare the cases as they were supposed to be. They just observed them in case it would turn bad. Watching well and treating the few difficult case well made it so that there was just around 5 deaths a year, amongst cohorts of 800.000 who almost all caught it. At the scale of my department, that would be one letal case every 80 years... Outdoor leisure kill more in half a week here, as it was noticeable after lockdown (as we were very lucky with Covid, there were more outdoor leisure related death in 4 days of reopening than Covid related death from 9 months of first wave. NB: it was unfortunately different with second wave)
And this is from a company that forgot to tell people that the flashy smart thermostat they bought last year has had a mic in it the whole time.

They are a company that will only pay attention to privacy when forced to by an existential threat. It just isn't in their company DNA to care about user privacy. They aren't the customers.
Wealthiest 10 men could 'pay for vaccines for all'
Everyone has cameras. How a photo of yourself with thumbs up isn’t required is beyond me. It’s extremely easy, and would cut down on a lot of fraud.
I've seen numerous ads for Peleton; I have no idea what Concept 2 is, much less some ad on YC for yet another YC product I'm not going to buy.

In addition, I've seen at least one New York Times article (each) wringing their hands about Biden riding a Peleton and wearing a Rolex, like it's surprising that US Presidents are inordinately rich.

Anyway, I'm gonna get my fat ass back on the hydraulic rowing machine I have stored in my basement before I buy anything else from anyone.
> bikes can accelerate and brake much more rapidly due to their lower mass

Cars are typically able to brake faster than motorcycles. One of the reasons why tailgating on a bike is extremely dangerous.
It may be, but that article is also hedging quite a bit.

People have a hard time with this intuitively, because we probably live under the weakest selection pressure in the history of planet Earth, but it's vicious down there. Viruses are to a large extent playing a zero-sum game. If they get better at one thing, it almost has to come at the cost of something else, because they've already got all the knobs cranked up as high as they will go just to survive and they don't have a spare energy budget just lying around to put into other things without taking away from something else.

It's not impossible that some mutation was made that made it more infectious and more deadly... but it's a long enough shot that I'd consider the likelihood of incomplete early information and incentives that some parties have to amp up the danger in the presence of such uncertainty higher. Viruses do not routinely become more infectious and more deadly. If they did, we'd all be long dead. The evolution gradient tilts strongly away from that.
I'm selective about what I take notes about and don't fret about tooling. I've used Evernote since 2011 and think about switching from time to time because Evernote is not great. But I use it, and I can search notes going back to 2011. I have packing checklists, travel notes, and post-trip notes from foreign travel and backpacking trips, lists of books and movies that I have and haven't read, a commonplace book of quotes and images, notes about technologies and commands that I wrote for reference, essays I wrote for the sake of clarifying my own thinking, recipes with notes about adjustments and variations I've tried.

Organized? Pshhh. Mostly search. I put every note in a notebook, and I have some tags that I use to define collections of notes for particular purposes. Search works for the rest.

Oh, and I don't try to make notes about everything I learn. I only have a note if at some point I felt there would be value in working out my thoughts or preserving something for later reference.

I also delete things, because when I need to do, say, a git bisect, I create a note to help me remember the commands right now and for the next month or two in case I need it again, but if I run across that note later and I haven't used it in two years, I'll delete it, because if I ever need it again I'll probably find a better resource in twenty seconds using a web search.

The most important thing is to be very careful and intentional about thinking of your notes as a product. Sometimes you want to document something very well, very clearly, so you can come back to it later when you've forgotten most of the context, but that's rare. Usually the cost/benefit pushes me to almost always write decent notes (which takes effort) but rarely excellent ones. I think people fall into the trap of being attracted to their notes as something they can be proud of, something they could show off (or imagine showing off.) Then your note-taking habit is vulnerable to all kinds of swings in your mind, changes of taste, changes of interest. Have the discipline to be practical, not proud.
I've restarted the ghost server on my $5 a month Droplet :joy:
I guess this article was more popular than I expected. Sorry about that.
Yeah, that was a hypothetical question, but thanks... there's no going back it seems :D

I'm sure they still have this environment in some countries where no one wants to visit.
A second thumbs-up on BotaBox. I drink its cabernet sauvignon and honestly can't taste the difference from ordinary bottled red, although I've never trained my palate in any serious way.

Because of the plastic bladder and preservation from oxidization, the BotaBox wine tastes the same from the first glass until the box is drained, normally a week, at room temperature. I imagine though that one would get that same benefit from boxes of swill like Franzia.
A method to address mistrust is to initiate "virtue circles": do people unrequested favors, without expectation of any return. Just do it; it actually feels good. And it is infectious. Others start doing it too, and double so when you subtly exhibit the joy of helping others without any expectations. Once more than 3 people in any social circle start this type of positive interaction, a positive culture shift occurs in the social group. It is quite amazing how fast this transition happens, as if people are waiting for an excuse to be better with others.
The assumptions about environment and the system-under-test has been the Achilles' heel in any certification I've been part of.

It isn't like the CC folks aren't aware of the problem. The idea was that the Security Target (definition of the system) could declare conformance to a standardized Protection Profile which consumers could use as a shortcut to understanding what was promised.

However, nobody looks at STs nor PPs except the vendor and the certifier, so all that work is for naught. You could absolutely get a CC cert with the environment that it is unplugged from a network.
Holding on to publishing the results because you don't like the political consequences sounds like self-censorship to me
Is this not how brave ads work, with a local profile that fetches ads you profiles says you should be interested in?
SSH-MitM – CVE-2020-14145 detect clients which will warn from MitM attacks
The upcoming release 0.3.19 will support CVE-2020-14145.

With this vulnerability, it is possible to detect clients, which will show an error message of a possible mitm.

At the moment, only a few default algorithms are added to ssh-mitm, but there is an open issue ticket for that, and in the near future, more default algorithms will be added.

https://github.com/ssh-mitm/ssh-mitm/issues/35

Please help to improve this great tool :-)
Salton sea area is very dusty, one of the worst on the continent.
Presumably it would have been assumed they were lying to avoid death.
My guess: they were trying to create a public proof that they had access to Stack internals (probably so they could sell it), and weren’t familiar enough with StackExchange administrivia to realize that the users would immediately notice and be suspicious of a new non-elected moderator.
YC's Paul Buchheit: The Surprising Lesson from 200 Startups (2016)
They're not comparing your company to Peloton -- they're comparing your website, which appears to be "influenced" by the Peloton site. The color scheme is pretty much identical. I don't think it's meant as a compliment as anyone could hijack some CSS from a competing website.
Thanks for the pointer to the Signal desktop app! It looks pretty close to what I had in mind.

As for the definition of a standalone service: One that doesn't tightly integrate with other offerings/ecosystems. Skype is kind of ok because other than connecting with your MS account, it doesn't promote other offerings. Also Microsoft's business model is not based on collecting and selling your data, at least not in the same extent as Google/FB.

Web-focused services work ok if you're comfortable with the web. But for parents, grandparents etc., I feel that a standalone client with a simple interface is more foolproof.
> The previous government (removed illegitimacy in a coup)

Dilma was impeached and removed, Temer finished her term, then Bolsonaro won the election after getting stabbed, and nearly killed, by opposition supporters. I know he's highly controversial, but he did win the election.

The removal of Dilma is not normally what one would describe as a "coup." The military junta from 1969, however, is.
As someone who runs IT for a medium sized organisation using G Suite (now Google Workspace), I can not recomend against it enough. I understand why the decision was taken at the time it was (it was before my time, but it was when G Suite had much better collaborative editing than MS offered, and when the company needed to upgrade it's on-prem file server, and didn't have any capable of managing things like that in house), but it turned out, with hindsight, to be a huge mistake.

You get things like issues with a user not having visiblity of items in a folder, and support ask you to check all folders shared with the user to see how many are affected. There are tens of thousands of these, so this is obviously impractical.

I had an issue with their "eventually consistent" admin interface not showing whether a user was part of a group, and their response was to wait 24 hours to see if they have been sucessfully added to it, or to email the entire group and ask the user to check whether they got the test email.

We had a Google Sheets file that, for whatever reason, was not able to be opened. Months later, the issue is unresolved. If we didn't have daily backups that use the API to make a copy, exporting Google Docs, Sheets and Slides files as MS Office documents, using a thrd-party service, we would have just effectively lost this data.

It is clear that Google does not treat this as a business class product, and it hurts to business users.

It is getting worse and worse IMHO, while the MS competition is getting better and better. It is only a matter of time until we switch I think, and I would strongly caution anyone against adopting it, especially if you plan to use it as the primary file sharing method for more than 10 users. For us, the thing making it hard to move is that our data on Google Drive is a mess. We haven't been using Team Drives, because we have been using Google Drive since before they were a thing, so have complicated nested permissions, meaning we can't simply move things to Team Drives. If you have used it for as long as we have, when there was no way to prevent users from doing this, and didn't have policies about how it was used to prevent this (whiuch we didn't, we started using it before I joined the company) I don't see how you can have avoided this.

I'm not sure how GCP compares, but I have been pretty disappointed by how slow they have been to support recent versions of PostgreSQL and MySQL in their hosted DB service. We use AWS mostly, and, while there are things about GCP that look nice, they seem to fail to do the basics that would not be at all hard for them to do, and it looks like they don't take it seriously as a product either really. It is sad really, given that there really needs to be more competition for AWS and Azure IMHO.
Mathematician rediscovers centuries of Leftist knowledge.
My personal website uses cloudflare workers / cdn to host a CMS-over-GUI system. Has a lightweight automatic git-like CVS for visibility and versioning. Does basic auth too. Just wanted to bring up that this is a very real possibility. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
A good walk-through of this code is here: https://rickyhan.com/jekyll/update/2020/01/16/j-incunabulum-...
This is going to come down to experience but I'd say the majority of those I trained with had dealt with an injury at one point or another. Most women, particularly the lightweight class experienced broken ribs from strain across the core and most of the guys had lower back issues at one point or another.

I'm not saying these things are death machines or anything, but the concept of adding essentially seated row to a rowing machine is fairly dangerous. Throwing an air damper up to 10 and ripping on it for a couple minutes will leave you quite sore the next morning but adding high weight can start pulling muscles or slipping discs.
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Aplicaciones para uso empresarial que pueden faltar en 2021
Gestionar un negocio no es cosa fácil, eso ya lo sabemos. Por ese motivo, compartimos este listado de aplicaciones que no pueden faltarte en 2021. Es crucial contar con buenas herramientas informáticas (apps, aplicaciones web, software de gestión ERP, etc…) si queremos ser productivos
SSH-MitM – Version 0.3.19 supports CVE-2020-14145 Client information leak
Should propably be required reading for every programmer and especially for those that work with memory unsafe languages. With a side of modern mitigation techniques.[0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffer_overflow (See buffer overflow protection)
This is exactly how I use Fastmail. Every newsletter/new account has a dedicated email address that is an alias to my primary fastmail address, based on a custom combination.

That way, it’s super easy to know which service is actually either spamming me, or leaked my email address.
No idea what that software is doing exactly, but if you are video capturing/encoding a game you are running on a computer, you don't want that framebuffer to have to transit anywhere to be encoded. One of the major advantages of NNENC.

That project looks abandoned and points to https://github.com/alvr-org/ALVR

Intel's GPUs has never been great for gaming. I don't know if the 5980HS removes the need for an discrete GPU performance wise.
You're being downvoted, but you hit the nail on the head.

I feel like for people of my vintage (born in the early 80s) the whole war on terror was extremely caustic to my generational cohort. It was a weird environment where every trusted institution in society lined-up in support of both wars, and then actively worked to sideline any debate and discussion. The Dixie Chicks got infamously cancelled for saying something completely milquetoast against the Bush and the war.

And just as we thought we were turning a corner on the War on Terror the financial crash of 2008 hit. Here, it was another highly regarded institution: finance. Young people might not remember this, but finance used to be the industry you would track into if you were a high achieving member of the intelligentsia. The industry was viewed as being staffed to the gills with the best-and-brightest and was afforded anodyne coverage from the establishment media. So naturally, when they imploded the country and then went on TV and blamed it on losers with mortgages[1], and proceeded to face zero real consequences because the justice system never bothered putting laws in place to protect regular people and felt such actions would "punish people for taking risks" (which as an aside: if you are just externalizing risk to 3rd parties you aren't actually "encouraging people to take risks")

It's a trope, but social trust has been eroded because people feel like there's basically "meritocratic" caste system in this country: if you go to the right school, get into the right industry, and make enough money you are granted a measure of impunity when you externalize harm that you quite frankly shouldn't have.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp-Jw-5Kx8k
I still think a plain old PHP site works just as well, and is easier and more flexible than any SSG system.
Wouldn't the mode be encoded in the type system via the tokens your parser is generating? I mean, every mode would be a different enum containing all the tokens that are valid in that mode?